Staff Report news@thewoodstockindependent.com Galt Airport’s owner died in a plane crash in November that federal investigators say occurred “under unknown circumstances.” Claude Sonday, 75, of Bull Valley died at the scene of the crash of his aerobatic aircraft that firefighters found up against a tree about a quarter of a mile east of the airport […]
The victim of the single-engine plane crash last week has been identified as Galt Airport owner Claude Sonday.According to a news release Wednesday from McHenry County Coroner Michael Rein, Sonday, 75, was the pilot and lone occupant of the two-seat aerobatic monoplane that crashed Nov. 24 near Galt Airport in Wonder Lake.Sonday and his wife, Dianebought the airport at a foreclosure auction in 2013.“Words cannot […]
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